in november of 2020 goes outside of the usual channels to scribble a memo on withdrawal from afghanistan. at the same time, there s all this chatter and intelligence about china and his communication, chairman milley, based on reporting tells others can be the seeds of war. so in october, days before the election, then again january 8th, makes these calls to china. as our book shows, they re not isolated calls, they re calls made on a back channel to try to de-escalate the situation during a dangerous transition period and chairman milley today got to tell his side of the story under oath and our reporting tries to tell the whole story of the transition, including chairman milley s part. one of the more remarkable things in the book is what reads like a transcript from a call between general milley and speaker pelosi. i want to play general milley s comments today on that passage. later that same day on 8